jleonard
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I am not normally big on additives other than to stabilize today's crap gas.
However, last weekend Startron saved my bacon...well actually saved my 15 hp 2 cycle Yamaha dinghy engine.
She was running great then suddenly when we were leaving a friends boat, it would not stay running at idle long enough to put it in gear. It would not take the fuel when I tried to rev it a bit in neutral. Just sputtered and died.
I finally got it to shift into gear and we went back to our boat but it would not idle.
I took the on engine filter out and it was clear (I also use a generic in line filter in the fuel line).
Thinking it was a idle circuit jet that was clogged I needed some carb cleaner or something to attempt to clean it out. I didn't have any on board.
Since it was cocktail hour (that we arranged) we got her running again after several attempts and made it back to our friend's boat.
A couple of wines later we started diagnosing my problem. Both friends immediately said "dose it with Startron".
Ok so they had some, gave (loaned) me a 8 ounce bottle and I dumped most of it into approx. 5 gallons of 2 cycle mix. (bottle says overdose is ok)
Fired it up and almost immediately it cleared Ran it around the anchorage for a few minutes at close to wot and once again runs like a champ.
Maybe they hooked another sucker, but I know I'm sold on it.
"Startron in every tank" is my new policy.
However, last weekend Startron saved my bacon...well actually saved my 15 hp 2 cycle Yamaha dinghy engine.
She was running great then suddenly when we were leaving a friends boat, it would not stay running at idle long enough to put it in gear. It would not take the fuel when I tried to rev it a bit in neutral. Just sputtered and died.
I finally got it to shift into gear and we went back to our boat but it would not idle.
I took the on engine filter out and it was clear (I also use a generic in line filter in the fuel line).
Thinking it was a idle circuit jet that was clogged I needed some carb cleaner or something to attempt to clean it out. I didn't have any on board.
Since it was cocktail hour (that we arranged) we got her running again after several attempts and made it back to our friend's boat.
A couple of wines later we started diagnosing my problem. Both friends immediately said "dose it with Startron".
Ok so they had some, gave (loaned) me a 8 ounce bottle and I dumped most of it into approx. 5 gallons of 2 cycle mix. (bottle says overdose is ok)
Fired it up and almost immediately it cleared Ran it around the anchorage for a few minutes at close to wot and once again runs like a champ.
Maybe they hooked another sucker, but I know I'm sold on it.
"Startron in every tank" is my new policy.